Digital security giant entrust revealed that it was attacked by blackmail software gangs in June

Given the sensitivity of stolen data , This attack may involve a large number of uses Entrust Authentication and management organization —— Even the Department of energy 、 Department of homeland security 、 The Ministry of Finance 、 Department of health and human services 、 Department of Veterans Affairs 、 U.S. government agencies such as the Department of agriculture .

About two weeks ago , A source told BleepingComputer, Event occurred in 6 month 18 Japan 、 And hackers stole during the network attack Entrust Company data .

But until security researchers Dominic Alvieri Yesterday at Twitter It's exposed on the Internet Entrust On 7 month 6 Screenshot of the safety notice sent to the customer on the th , The outside world is officially aware of this data violation .

Entrust CEO Todd Wilkinson Write in the safety bulletin ：

Here I want to tell you ,6 month 18 On the day of the th , Some unauthorized persons have accessed some operating systems within the company .

Entrust Measures were taken at the first time , And they are working tirelessly to remedy .

Although the investigation is still ongoing , However, there is no indication that the product has affected Entrust The operation or safety of products and services .

At present, it is not clear from Entrust Stolen from the internal system , Is it pure company data 、 It still affects customers and suppliers .

On Friday ,Entrust towards BleepingComputer Express , It is working with law enforcement and a leading cyber security company to investigate the attack , And it has not affected the operation of the company .

However, according to AdvIntel CEO Vitali Kremez Described , The man behind the scenes got the leaked Entrust The credentials 、 And take this to break through the company's Internal network .

In addition, refer to many previous attacks , Hacker gangs often steal data , By the way, use blackmail software to encrypt important file data and then blackmail the victim .